Day: January 18, 2025

Mid-January Check-in

Posted on by kdorminy

Well, 2025 is well underway. January is quite the long month though. I don’t know if it’s because there is no major holiday in January like the last two months have or if my genuine disdain for any type of cold weather makes this month drag on, but for whatever reason it often seems there are 75 days in every January.

This one is shaping up to feel like 175 days seeing how we already had a dusting of snow and cancelled school last week and they’re already calling for another round of wintry weather. I don’t like it at all. Not one little bit. I was made to live in Florida, but Josh wasn’t—so here we are in North Carolina with too many weather forecasts including the words “wintry mix.”

Anyway, this year I am trying to take a photo each day of at least one moment I am grateful for (it seems I need the practice). There are often multiple reasons I am grateful in a day, but I am trying to focus on even the little things and stop to take in the moment with a grateful heart. I will share some of my photos from my 2025 year of gratitude album from time to time for accountability.

Here we go—

One of the last meals with the girls before they went back to school.
Continual gratefulness for the ability to move my body regularly. We joined a local gym in August and it’s been a good move for us. Josh and I get to work out together a few evenings a week. I go alone sometimes and do our strength workout or use the cardio equipment with friends and usually top it off with some time in the dry sauna. Fifty years of life will be here in 2027 and I wanna be ready!
I enjoyed some one on one time with Ruby while Molly was at Passion Conference.
Super grateful to have given Ruby the queen bed that was in here and turned this into a simple, clean guest room—decorated with things we mostly already had here!
Mack shared his testimony in the Dominican Republic on his Senior Class Mission Trip. So proud of him.
Moved Molly in to a little rental with Rachel and Kate (Kate couldn’t be there this particular day).
Always grateful for a clean, calm home
Rolo is always grateful for a walk, which is few and far between because her mom hates to be cold. But this was a beautiful, sunny day!
Thankful to start a new Bible Study with a group of friends. Thankful for Rolo behaving herself during the study. Thankful for the fire that makes our home cozy.
Thankful for days when I actually get dressed in real clothes. I snap a pic and send it to Josh because I will have changed by the time he gets home.

These are just a few moments I chose to snap a photo and take in the moment to be grateful. I hoping this practice over the course of the whole year will make me into a more grateful person than I’ve ever been.

I do hope your January is off to a grateful start! You still have 58 days left in this month to give this practice a try…..I kid.